21 Quotes by Ellen Miller

I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it.

Her smile was a supernova: blazing, beautiful, short-lived.

He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity.

Gone is what happens when people stop asking, when all research has ceased, when no one contributes to the archives of a life or its extinction.

Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.

I never saw her a burglar prying my windows open with a jimmy to steal whatever she found inside.

We're not competitive at all. We just go to have fun.

Let us know what earmarks, for example, your members of Congress are bragging about, tell us about them, and together we'll track down what they're really all about.

I'm an artist, but my father is an old rocket scientist, so we talked about physics a lot over the dinner table,